KapiScrap's Groove Challenge - Begins May 27-2013

This fun challenge is part of Sandrine's awesome "Special Edition of The Groove" posted May 27, 2013. There you'll find new releases, details about a one-week sale on Sandrine's kits, and full challenge details.

Sandrine will be posting soon to guide you along...take it away, Sandrine!

For this special edition of The Groove I offer you a new challenge, which is a “blind scrap”. It means that you are going to discover the final rendering of your page layout once your page is completed. I hope that you will have fun in making your page layout.

1. Launch Scrapbook MAX! and open a new project.
Select the menu Page > Settings and then click on the Size tab of the Page Settings dialog box to set the page size:
Size: 3600 x 3600 pixels
Resolution: 300 pixels/inch

2. Add a Background paper with no pattern.

3. Add an Embellishment that you will use to decorate your background paper. Place the embellishment (Embellishment A) on the left top side of your page and set a transparency between 50 and 75.

4. Copy-paste (Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V) this embellishment and place it on the right middle side of your page.

5. Add a patterned Paper Scrap (Paper A) and use the shortcuts S (for size), P (for Position), A (for Angle) to set these values:
Size: 3100 x 3100
Position x: -265
Position y: 600
Angle: 356
Enable the Shadow (Check the Shadow box).
Important: Set your Position, and THEN the Angle.

7. Add a Photo in a custom shape on your Paper Scrap B and set the Angle: 354
You can set a transparency for your Photo… so it looks like it is merged with the paperscrap.

8. Add a Caption text under your photo.
You could add two Caption texts with a different font. Use the picker to set the same color than your Paperscrap A on your texts.

9. Add an Embellishment on the Paper Scrap A on the right side, and enable the Shadow.

TIP: Select both the Embellishment and the Paper Scrap A and right click. In the popup menu select the item menu: Group. Now the Embellishment is on the layer between the Paper Scrap A and the Paper Scrap B. You can ungroup.

10. Add some additional Embellishments on the Paper Scrap A on the right side, and enable the Shadow.
They should be between the Paper Scrap A and the Paper Scrap B, but you should see them (see the screenshot).

11. Add some Embellishments on the Paper Scrap B below the Photo and at the right side of the Photo.

12. Set your default Shadow settings with the following values. What I call Default Shadow is the Global Shadow. Be sure to check the Global box.

Global Shadow:
Angle: 315
Distance: 35
Transparency: 40
Blur: 40
The new Global Shadow settings will be automatically applied to all the objects for which the GLOBAL Shadow option has been enabled.